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I was really hoping this would be the book that Mark Waid, Chris Samnee and Matt Wilson were going to be reuniting for, which would have been a great. I am hopefully for this book though, considering Coates' has probably got the best wealth of knowledge if Marvel wants this to be more of a political book that really shows the connection of Africa with the rest of the world. Something I really enjoyed was seeing Paul Jenkins for the Inhumans on the unsuspecting human world in his Inhumans book, so maybe this will share some slight thematic qualities. Conversely, if I recall the DC Batwing, that I bring up for soul purpose of connecting the African heritage, did really bad sales wise during the launch of the New 52, so here's to hoping this long standing character finds greater success.

@kokemabb200 said:

I'll be the guy on the other side of this saying that I don't think this stands for Kate Bishop. While I really enjoy Jane Foster as a character I won't deny I have my problems with how Aaron writes that book at times. I won't touch the Bobby Drake character talk just because I don't exactly accept it in my head cannon, but if I had to make a decisive stance on it, it did feel abrupt and at least Tony Stark's transformation into Superior Iron Man was grounded in the fact that he's been known to be a douche on several accounts.

The thing is I've always looked at Kate as someone who recognized that she was mature for her age but was trying to reconcile that with the fact that the mantle that she had taken over was originally held by a man-child. Clint is an idiot and that's something I love about Fraction's run on Hawkeye, and that I feel Lemire is transferring over to his current run. If we're looking at Fraction he establishes that Kate is kind of still growing into her own and she couldn't handle seeing Clint not having grown up himself. In That run Clint is destructive, pushes people away and genuinely just doesn't act like someone who Kate feels should be her example of how a professional hero should be. After leaving, kind of failing on her own and coming back we've seen that even with the maturity level that she has she's still pretty naive as to how things in the world work but she's seeing some growth in Clint towards the end of that Fraction run.

Lemire digs right into the unresolved issues with these first five issues of his stint on the characters setting up this great divide between the two. Kate is trying to do something that she objectively knows is right, but Clint is actually being somewhat of an adult and looking at things with a level head. That punch is taken out of context, but as it stands Kate has been seeing this guy make terrible choices for quite some time, and when she needs him to be on her side it looks like he's falling back into those terrible choices he always makes. The punch is her not being mature enough to find another way to deal with things. The TL;DR: to me this isn't a statement of Kate being a strong female character, but really this is Lemire showing that she still has a bit of maturing to do. Kate's lashing out at the only person who's been there for her recently, who she thought would be on her side, who she needed to be on her side but inevitably let her down. But that's just what I've taken from it.

@mr__kamikaze said:

I just went looking and there wasn't anything I could find that mentioned Inhumans during the time they were finding out their connection with the High Evolutionary. And as far as their birth parents looking through what information I could find I didn't see anything of them being more than human, outside of their father using the Nivashi Stone to channel magic. In the last issue of that run Vision does mention something that would crush Wanda, my guess is that she's either somehow not Pietro's sister or something crazy like that. Anyways, if you've found any contradictory info let me know.

@mr__kamikaze said:

Pietro isn't an Inhuman. If you want to get the full story you can read the last Uncanny Avengers run, but he's just an experiment by the High Evolutionary. But I guess there are similarities.

I can only assume that Omega Men is ending because the story is finished in which case hopefully Tom King has some really cool ending coming for it or we'll get another status quo change for Kyle Raynor that will follow the ending of this series. At any rate I'll really miss this comic, it's just be a fun title to read during this whole "creativity over continuity" era.

Ugh... This makes me sad considering I didn't want to buy this book but that Skottie Young variant is going straight into my collection.

Well, Edmondson, we meet again. While I'm excited for the possibilities of another fish out of water character post-Secret Wars, I'm still eagerly awaiting to hear about my dream team of Waid, Samnee and Wilson. Ugh. Where are you guys?!?!?

I understand the thought process behind this. The new Starbrand and Nightmask got a bit of love during the Hickman era and this will capitalise on that while providing a book for young adult readers. My worry is there was no overlap between the two markets. Hickman writes unforgivably for those who have the patience for his long stories why this seems more akin to the current Nova title.

I wish Marvel the best of luck with this one. Hopefully this book finds its audience.

I can't wait for Gaimon's run on Miracleman, though sadly I haven't seen much about it. If I remember correctly they were going to continue on to his run after the Moore reprints were finished but that ended earlier this year so I if this is going to be a completely new run or if we're going to get some reprints from his older run before going into the finale of the story he wanted to tell.

@mdamasco said:

I believe so. It's the last issue solicited on this run, which is both sad and great.

Personally, I've been loving everything that Mark Waid has been doing with Matt from the beginning of his run until his move to other side of the country and I can't wait for his finale. Just from these few pages I can tell I'm going to really miss Chris Samnee's art on this book as well. It's always amazing to see an artist with such a simple but elegant and masterful style take on a project and really make it their own. This run has personally defined the character for me more than any other and it'll be a sorely missed part of my monthly reading.